Soc 101 - Introduction to Sociology » Spring 2022 » Final Quiz Chapter 16 & 21 Social Change Quiz

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Question #1
In low-income nations, most education is a matter of
A.   formal schooling and then college.
B.   what children can teach themselves.
C.   what parents and other community members teach their children.
D.   teaching by religious leaders.
Question #2
An example of the cultural capital advantage of well-to-do students in U.S. schooling is parents who
A.   spend more time reading to their children.
B.   All of these responses are correct.
C.   encourage the development of imagination in their children.
D.   value schooling and encourage their children.
Question #3
The fact that, historically, schooling has been mostly for elites is evident in the fact that the word "school" has the same root as the Greek word for
A.   “elder.”
B.   “leisure.”
C.   “learning.”
D.   “wisdom.”
Question #4
Education is the social institution by which society provides people with important knowledge, including
A.   All of these responses are correct.
B.   basic facts and information.
C.   job skills.
D.   cultural norms and values.
Question #5
If you were to enter a school in ancient Greece or China, the students you would find there would be mainly
A.   soldiers.
B.   foreigners.
C.   the rich.
D.   women.
Question #6
Combining glass, a filament, and metal base (all of which previously existed) to form a new tool called the light bulb is an example of ________.
A.   invention
B.   discovery
C.   reformulation
D.   diffusion
Question #7
Social change is almost always
A.   planned
B.   All of these responses are correct.
C.   good for everyone in a society.
D.   controversial.
Question #8
In the United States, our culture makes us think that modernity always involves which of the following?
A.   inequality
B.   progress
C.   celebrating the past
D.   tradition
Question #9
Karl Marx understood modernity in terms of which of the following?
A.   the rise of rationality
B.   the rise of the capitalist economic system
C.   increasing productive specialization
D.   the loss of traditional community
Question #10
Actions performed by a group of people who bypass the usual norms governing their behavior and do something unusual are referred to as ________.
A.   bureaucratic ritualism
B.   collective behavior
C.   cultural deviance
D.   the Peter Principle

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